The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Elif Batuman

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging funny reflective slow-paced
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Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted - absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! - to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great...

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